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Especially if we still played at The Withdean.

Depends on what the alternative is. Playing for a club challenging for Europe compared to one starting with a points deduction in a relegation battle sounds alright to me.

The problem with relegation is it completely screws over the 2nd and 3rd best team in the division they get relegated to. The year we went up to the Premier League, if Man City had been relegated as punishment the year before, we'd have presumably finished 3rd and gone into the play-offs...

Probably been asked already, but what happens if they don't get promoted this season? Would the punishment be held back until they are next in the Premier League?

Agreed. Same old hypocritical bollocks from these companies. This will inspire people from all backgrounds* *that can afford to spend ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY POUNDS on a shirt we make for $1.

Pretty ridiculous thing to do. Are there about 4 billion bigger things to worry about? Yes. Shows what a tolerant country the UK is that stuff like this can be allowed to happen, I think.

That is a great idea.

I rate Sarmiento, but that is nonsense. Don't remember Sarmiento scoring against Ajax.

Would you be saying that if he was a 'normal' 21 year old, do you think? He's scored a few decent goals for us and was starting to look very at home at this level before he got injured. If he had come through our academy I think we'd all be very excited about him. It's his history that makes him...

Did Marseille and Ajax. Spent two nights in lovely hotels at both and ate in amazing restaurants the night before both games. Cost me £0. I do love a work meeting in Europe Edit: actually I think I paid for my Ajax match ticket myself. So £30. 🙂

Such a shame what happened to him. He was destined for big things before his injury. Was lower Championship at absolute best after it.

Almost feels like this is a little bit past it now. The time to release it was when we were flying high in the Premier League and beating teams in Europe. Feels like our season has died a bit now and a lot of the excitement has gone. Certainly for the neutral, anyway. It’s ridiculous how long...

My boys are 8 and 10 as well. It’s insane what they have seen. Especially the 8 year old. The lowest point he has seen is probably last night.

Thought he was good, but fell for a lot of the diving and gamesmanship, although not as much as a Premier League ref would have done. It's ridiculous how much better the referees are in the second rate European competition than they are in 'the best league in the world'.

I think this is right. If we'd signed him for £4 million from Almeria or someone and were paying him £15K a week I think we'd all see him as an exciting prospect who has had a reasonably good season.

I think he's a far, far better prospect than the one-dimensional Connolly ever was. But I still think he should have gone on loan last year (and I got shot down on here numerous times for saying it). He burst on to the scene, but strikers thrive on confidence, and when the goals dry up for a bit...

The 'worked out' thing is laughable. One thing I've really noticed in this country in the last few years is that people here don't really place any value on people learning things. It's always 'xxx isn't good enough, replace him with xxx' rather than thinking that now xxx has been through this...

Stunned that so many people think he is staying. I'd be absolutely amazed if he stayed, personally. He clearly hasn't been happy for a while, and I don't care what anyone says, Bloom and Barber WILL be pissed off with his constant mentioning of the transfer policy in public. He must be...

We must be the same generation because that is my exact journey. This season I have seen us beat AEK Athens, Marseille, Ajax (twice) and Roma. No matter how many times I say that at loud, it still doesn't sound right. We've played 4 teams in Europe this season and beaten all of them. What an...

Good. But haven't people received lifetime football bans for less than that? Three years seems very light to me.